Senior Platform Engineer (VMWare Cloud Foundation)

In this role you lead delivery of secure platforms for defence, government and public sector services, guiding design, build and support in hybrid environments. You’ll mentor engineers, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive continuous improvement of platform solutions. The role combines hands-on engineering with leadership to meet security, performance and stakeholder requirements. This is an opportunity to shape critical cyber and security platforms at Leonardo UK within a collaborative, agile team.

• generous leave with up to 12 flexi-days
• pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution
• mental health support
• financial advice and employee networks
• free access to 4,000+ online courses
• private healthcare and lifestyle discounts up to 500 annually on benefits

• Lead design, build and support of secure on-premise and hybrid platforms
• Own engineering delivery for one or more work packages including planning, estimation, execution and reporting
• Develop and review system architectures, low-level designs and technical documentation
• Integrate and test platform components ensuring security and performance compliance
• Mentor and provide technical leadership to Platform Engineers and Technicians
• Collaborate with stakeholders, project teams and customers to ensure solutions meet requirements
• Drive continuous improvement and contribute to internal engineering standards

• Strong ability to deliver and support complex platforms
• Balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership and mentoring
• Confidence to own solutions and represent engineering in technical discussions
• Windows and Linux operating systems
• Virtualisation platforms (VMware, Hyper-V)
• VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack (vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T, Aria Suite)
• Design, build and operation of software-defined datacentre platforms
• Network virtualisation and micro-segmentation concepts (NSX)
• Networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, firewalls)
• Automation and scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform)
• Knowledge of cyber security controls and accreditation requirements
• Experience across the systems engineering lifecycle
• Integration of compute, storage, and network layers into a unified platform
• Delivery within secure / enterprise / defence environments

• Mentoring and technical leadership
• Stakeholder collaboration
• Proactive problem solving
• Windows and Linux
• VMware and Hyper-V
• VCF stack (vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T, Aria Suite)